Ludwig Eberle
Ludwig Eberle (born August 14, 1883 in Grönenbach , District Office Memmingen ; † October 31, 1956 there ) was a German sculptor , medalist , painter and graphic artist. He was an honorary citizen of Bad Grönenbach.
Life
Ludwig Eberle was born the son of a stonemason in Grönenbach in Upper Swabia and completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason from 1896 to 1899. From 1900 to 1906 he studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich under Heinrich Waderé and Anton Pruska . From 1906 to 1914 he studied with Professors Erwin Kurz , Adolf von Hildebrand and Hermann Hahn at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . During the First World War Eberle volunteered for military service.
His busts and frescoes are characterized above all by their sobriety and objectivity of an otherwise neo-historical style.
Eberle's hometown Bad Grönenbach awarded him honorary citizenship on May 18, 1923 .
Works
Ludwig Eberle's works have been preserved mainly in Bavarian Swabia .
In his birthplace Bad Grönenbach, there is a fresco on the town hall depicting Emperor Friedrich III. how this gives the place market rights. For Kempten, Eberle created the Roman bull near the Allgäuhalle as a memorial for local animal breeding, as well as the bust of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the King Ludwig Monument . In the Kempten Keck Chapel he refreshed the late medieval fresco cycle in the choir. In Mittelberg in the Kleinwalsertal he painted a fresco in the children's home, as well as in the St. Andreas Church in Roßhaupten . Eberle created war memorials for Attenhausen (1922), Böhen (1924), Bad Grönenbach (1924), Ottobeuren and Solnhofen .
literature
- Christian Hornig: Eberle, Ludwig In: General artist dictionary. = Artists of the World. AKL online. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 978-3-598-41800-6 , Doc-ID: 100200109.
Web links
- Portrait of Ludwig Eberle by Leo Samberger (1861–1949)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Eberle. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 7, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Bernard Kühling: Allgäuer Künstlerlexikon . 1st edition. Kempten 2012, p. 73f.
- ↑ Register of the AdBK
- ↑ Bad Grönenbach 1099–1999, page 14
- ↑ Ralf Lienert: Stier Roman should return to its previous location. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: allin.de, January 4, 2008. (accessed July 7, 2013)
- ↑ List of monuments for Solnhofen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
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SURNAME | Eberle, Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, medalist, painter and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1883 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Grönenbach , District Office Memmingen |
DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1956 |
Place of death | Grönenbach , District Office Memmingen |